Mother and father depression symptoms and child emotional difficulties: a network model.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mother and father depression symptoms often co-occur, and together can have a substantial impact on child emotional well-being. Little is understood about symptom-level mechanisms underlying the co-occurrence of depression symptoms within families.

Aims

The objective was to use network analysis to examine depression symptoms in mothers and fathers after having a baby, and emotional symptoms in children in early adolescence.

Method

We examined data from 4492 mother-father-child trios taken from a prospective, population-based cohort in the UK. Symptoms were examined using two unregularised partial correlation network models. The initial model was used to examine the pattern of associations, i.e. the overall network structure, for mother and father depression

SUBMITTER: Martin AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10895513 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature